Order COLEOPTERA. 



Family CHRYSOMELID^E. 



The large family CiirysomeliDjE, comprising about 20,000 

 species, has been divided into groups and subfamilies as follows : — 



Eupodes 1. Sagrinse. 



2. Donuciinae. 



3. Orsodacninae. 



4. Criocerinae. 

 Camptosomes 5. Megascelinae. 



6. Megalopodinae. 



7. Clytrinae. 



8. Cryptocephalinae. 



9. Chlamydinae. 

 Cyclica 10. Lamprosominae. 



11. Eumolpinse. 



12. Chrysomelinae. 

 Trichostomes 13. Galerucinae. 



14. Halticinae. 



Ceyptostomes 15. Hispinae. 



16. Cassidinae. 



Out of these sixteen subfamilies, one, namely Megascelinve, is 

 not known to occur within our faunistic limits.* The first 

 eleven subfamilies have been already dealt with by the late 

 Mr. Martin Jacoby in this series (Coleopteia, 1908), and 

 the last two, Hispin^s and Cassidinse, by the present 

 writer (Coleoptera, 1919). The subfamilies Chrysomelinae and 

 HalticiNjE form the subject of the present volume. From the 

 point of view of relationship it would have been better to 

 treat Galerucinjs and HalticiNjE together, but the former 

 group alone includes, such a large number of forms occurring 

 within our faunistic area that an account of them would 

 occupy fully the space generally allotted to a large volume iu 

 this series. 



* In my preceding volume (1910, p. 2), it was by an oversight erroneously 

 stated that Megalopodinae alto are unrepresented in British India. 

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